switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be dr… - Larry Wall

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switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die; }

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.

switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die; } - Larry Wall

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